Jambulingeswara Temple Tank (Waterbodies of Chennai - 33)

The southern outskirt of Chennai has so many waterbodies which are not yet vanished. Unfortunately, only a few of them are being maintained properly. The Jamulingeswara temple of Sembakkam near Tambaram has a huge tank that spreads an area of around 0.5 acres. The history of the temple or tank is not known. But it should be centuries old. This tank, with so much capacity, could improve the groundwater level of the locality to a great extent. But, it is unfortunate that this tank merely appears like a playground. It's absolutely dry, and I am not sure if any attempt has ever been made to restore this tank.

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Note: As per a report, there were about 650+ waterbodies in the Chennai region till the 1980s. Today, only a fraction of them exist. And most of those surviving waterbodies hardly have water, and even some of them that have water have been poorly shrunk. In Chennai, there are tank roads without tanks nearby and lake-view roads without lakes. There is a high possibility that even the few waterbodies we have today might vanish soon. I decided to visit the currently surviving waterbodies of Chennai and its suburbs and write about them in my blog as a series.

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